12 Viral Home Decor Trends You're Going To See Less Of In 2025

Whether we're happy to see 2024 fade into our collective memory or not, there are definitely some home decor and design trends to which we're content to bid a fond farewell. From cheap, mass produced furniture to overly formalized office spaces, there are some style choices that got a lot of attention in 2024. But they have officially had their moment — and now we can all move on. 

As 2025 dawns, trend setting designers and homeowners are leaning toward incorporating story into our home spaces, encouraging us to learn how to use bold colors in our homes as a backdrop to unique design pieces that speak to the depth of our individuality. Of course, all design is an evolution, and while strict styling choices like stark minimalism or decorating your home with a bohemian style may be falling from favor, some of their principal concepts will continue to inform the way we curate our environments.

We're leaning ever more heavily into the sustainable design movement and taking biophilia and its nature-inspired decor focus into our hearts — in part because there is evidence that it's good for our health. And decluttering will always be essential to creating comfortable living spaces. Ultimately though, 2025 is looking excitedly forward to a time in design history where personality, quirkiness, and idiosyncratic styling deserve the spotlight, and these 12 design trends will fade ever further into the past.

In an unabashed nod to opulence, maximalism is a design trend built around the idea that more of everything is, well, more. Fearless pattern and texture mixing have been hallmarks of the style (especially when checkerboard is incorporated), and bright bold colors have covered everything. It's not an easy style to pull off without spaces looking cluttered; and while the chaotic vibe spoke to some designers and home decorators, that level of intensity everywhere can become overwhelming. This may be part of the reason that 2025 promises to embrace the uniqueness and personality of maximalism but with a much more curated touch.

Neither are we leaning entirely the other way. While clean, pared down spaces were popular in recent years, they've come to feel sterile, flat, and predictable. Minimalism suggested not just fewer items, but hiding away anything and everything that did not have an obvious purpose. Bright colors, too, were often shunned in favor of spaces decorated almost exclusively in neutral tones. As we begin to celebrate personal idiosyncrasies, designers are looking to liven up neutral color schemes and land somewhere between maximalism and its opposite, creating joyful, storied spaces that function well.

Mass produced furnishings that were once considered safe and classic have become predictable and boring. What's more, we've been reminded yet again that cheap furnishings can actually be more costly in the long run because they don't hold up well and we just end up replacing them. As character takes center stage in the way we curate our homes, consumers are looking for quality, investment pieces that are charismatic and interesting. This shift lends itself wonderfully to environmentally conscious design; when you want to bring a little pizazz to your space, it's preferable to adopt a vintage couch.

The style notorious for exposed plumbing, wiring, and concrete everything has been slipping from favor for a couple years – and that will likely continue. Industrial style home design is just another victim of the general trend toward warmth, personality, and coziness that have continued to dominate forward-looking decor trends. With its exposed brick, glass, and metal stylings, the look speaks to cold, hard, and unforgiving environments. Dominated by dark colors and industrial greys, the look can also feel dark and depressive. This definitely makes it easier to say goodbye and let the industrial aesthetic go out of style.

While grey rose to its design zenith, white everything rode the wave right along with it. Under the guise of creating a clean, light vibe, the bland, placid nature has deflated to generic and apathetic — especially when combined with viral furniture trends like boucle pieces. That's not to say we won't still see the color white throughout home design trends, but neutral-on-neutral styling is evolving to a more tempered place that's less high-maintenance. Warmth and color will be venerated in trending designs, and white will again take its place as a brightener — when used in moderation. 

Remember when family rooms and dining rooms were separate spaces and home offices were practically obligatory? As we bid adieu to 2024's design trends, we're also shifting away from highly formalized office spaces and towards adaptable ones. Decorators are embracing the reality of the way we live our lives, and having an entire separate room that is only for working just doesn't fit the bill anymore. In fact, on-trend decorators are finding ways to layer not just personality and story into our homescapes, but functionality. After all, kitchens have kind of always been offices and classrooms, too.

We've long loved modern farmhouse design in part because it marries the sweet touches of country life with the clean, modern world most of us live in. Characterized by mixing black and white, woods and metals, and old and new, there are themes of the look that will likely carry forward long into the future. However, adhering strictly to a modern farmhouse look will quickly leave your space feeling dated. The coming years will be all about the warmth and character of farmhouse style, but with softer backdrops. Think neutral wood versus white cabinets and deep, rich colors instead of shiplap.

Again, there are elements of this aesthetic that will incorporate beautifully into the coming design trends, but there are others that may have to be updated. For instance, all the pale colors like light blues, greens, and creams that are central to the romanticized country vibe are still quite cool and antique feeling for current trend designers. Embracing natural materials will be a cornerstone of the emerging styles, but floral and gingham fabrics may not make the cut. Storied pieces will be lauded but the granny chic floral skirted table probably won't.

Perhaps as a counter-trend to the vanilla, grey, and white color palettes of recent years, there was an impassioned bubble of color enthusiasts that leaned hard the other direction; into a kind of '70s revival with bold patterns, psychedelic colors, and quirky anything. Personal expression was the throbbing heartbeat of this aesthetic and that focus will not just carry into 2025 — it will define it. So will bright colors. However, instead of faux velvet curtains in an acid green shade, go for an elegant emerald-colored options in a luxe bamboo-based material.

Rising to popularity in the '80s and coming back into style in recent years, the worn, romantic shabby chic look has worn out its welcome. While there was certainly a sense of whimsy and home-spun comfort in many of the styling hallmarks, 2025 is looking forward to a bright new era of crafting comfort in a way that speaks uniquely to us. The frenzied fixation with all white rooms, chalk painted everything, and sanding freshly-painted furniture to make it look aged is fading into design history while quirky, boldly-colored pieces step confidently into the center of our design aesthetics.

It can be tough to make hardware look soft and warm — though gold and rose gold certainly made a valiant effort. In certain contexts they really pulled it off, too. White, black, and navy blue kitchens and cabinetry were softened by the warm yellow tones. But even as future-looking designs enthusiastically embrace warmth in terms of color, the trend for metallics is pulling away from gold and its blushing sister in favor of more subtle, natural looking materials. Nickel, copper, and brass may be safer choices going into the second half of the decade.

The bohemian aesthetic had some of the same troubles as maximalism, and that pervasive sense of low-grade chaos may be in part the reason why the style has fallen from favor in recent years. It can feel hodgepodge and accidental. What's more, the original, eclectic intention behind the style has been lost to mainstream, big-box store decor, and sterilized in the process. Many principals of the style — like layering patterns and textures, embracing quirky, meaningful items, and a generally biophilic, nature-inspired vibe — will still be a theme in the coming years, but in a more reflective, grownup way.